CEDERBERG, the book

248pp., maps, b/w & colour illus., paperback, Slingsby Maps for Tracks4Africa, Paarl, 2025

ISBN: 9781776322978

Foreword by Don Pinnock. With contributions by Dawie Burger, Quinton and Elizabeth Martins, and Jeannie Hayward.

Peter Slingsby, who first visited the Cederberg in 1955, shares stories, interviews and field notes from his nearly seventy years of exploration. Part history and part field guide, the book includes the myths and the true stories of the mountains; the history and politics of the people; the origins of place names; the geology; the flora and fauna; favourite walks, hikes and drives; rock climbing; and the San rock art.

"For half a century, Peter Slingsby has been quietly mapping not just mountains, but meaning. His new volume, Cederberg: The Book, feels like the natural culmination of that life’s work – a rich, layered act of devotion that is equal parts memoir, cultural history, hiking guide, ecological record and love letter to one of South Africa’s most evocative landscapes ... For hikers, climbers, historians, botanists, or anyone who has ever stood under the Wolfberg Arch at sunset and felt very small, this is essential reading." Don Pinnock, Daily Maverick

Cartographer and author Peter Slingsby has produced many authoritative hiking and touring maps of some of the most beautiful places in South Africa through his travel company Slingsby Maps. He has also written travel guides and books on natural history and rock art.